produced documentation proving
they were white, the child could be
classified as colored, and the family
had to make a decision. Do they
give up their white status to go and
live as colored people in a colored
area? Or would they split up, the
mother taking the colored child to
live in the ghetto while the father
stayed white to make a living to
support them?
Many colored people lived in
this limbo, a true purgatory, always
yearning for the white fathers who
disowned them, and they could be
horribly racist to one another as a
result. The most common colored